(MSNBC says so, anyway.)
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/01/gop-forget-latinos-woo-more-white-voters/
(With picture of relatively attractive (Mexican? American?) and PO’d looking woman.)
Note to national Republican Party: Stop trying to market your message to specific groups. Put it out there: “We believe in a government smaller than the monstrosity we now have. We believe government must stay out of our personal lives. We believe government must stop paying people to do nothing.” Stop using the Progressive/Democratic playbook, which says after every loss, “We just didn’t do a good enough job explaining what we meant.” Do it right. Stop looking at Hispanic-cultured-surnamed Americans as foreigners.
At www.maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com
The story might as well change GOP to White People’s Party, but, then, it is MSNBC, aka Republican bad, Progressive/Democrat/Socialist good.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Former Army doctor returns former North Vietnamese soldier’s arm
(Creepy. Couldn't the doc have kept ears or something?)
MIKE IVES, Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An American doctor arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966.
Dr. Sam Axelrad brought the skeletal keepsake home to Texas as a reminder that when a badly injured North Vietnamese soldier was brought to him, he did the right thing and fixed him up. The bones sat in a closet for decades, and when the Houston urologist finally pulled them out two years ago, he wondered about their true owner, Nguyen Quang Hung.
The men were reunited Monday at Hung's home in central Vietnam. They met each other's children, and grandchildren, and joked about which of them had been better looking back when war had made them enemies. Hung was stunned that someone had kept his bones for so long, but happy that when the time comes, they will be buried with him.
"I'm very glad to see him again and have that part of my body back after nearly half a century," Hung said by telephone Monday after meeting Axelrad. "I'm proud to have shed my blood for my country's reunification, and I consider myself very lucky compared with many of my comrades who were killed or remain unaccounted for."
Hung, 73, said American troops shot him in the arm in October 1966 during an ambush about 75 kilometers (46 miles) from An Khe, the town where he now lives. After floating down a stream to escape a firefight and then sheltering in a rice warehouse for three days, he was evacuated by a U.S. helicopter to a no-frills military hospital in Phu Cat, in central Binh Dinh province.
"When I was captured by the American forces, I was like a fish on a chopping-board," Hung said last week. "They could have either killed or spared me."
When Hung got to Axelrad, then a 27-year-old military doctor, his right forearm was the color of an eggplant. To keep the infection from killing his patient, Axelrad amputated the arm above the elbow.
After the surgery, Hung spent eight months recovering and another six assisting American military doctors, Hung said. He spent the rest of the war offering private medical services in the town, and later served in local government for a decade before retiring on his rice farm.
"He probably thought we were going to put him in some prisoner-of-war camp," Axelrad said. "Surely he was totally surprised when we just took care of him."
As for the arm, Axelrad said his medic colleagues boiled off the flesh, reconstructed the arm bones and gave them to him. It was hardly common practice, but he said it was a reminder of a good deed performed.
The bones sat in a military bag in Axelrad's closet for decades, along with other things from the war that he didn't want look at because he didn't want to relive those experiences.
When he finally went through the mementos in 2011, "it just blew me away what was in there," Axelrad said at a hotel bar in Hanoi early Sunday, hours after arriving in Vietnam with his two sons and two grandchildren on Saturday evening. "That kind of triggered my thoughts of returning."
It had taken a little luck for Axelrad to reunite Hung with his amputated arm. He traveled to Vietnam last summer — partly for vacation, but also to try to find the man.
He said he wasn't sure Hung was still alive, or where to begin looking for him. Axelrad visited An Khe but didn't ask for him there because he assumed Hung would be living in northern Vietnam, where he grew up.
By chance, Axelrad toured the old Vietnam War bunker at the Metropole Hotel in downtown Hanoi. His tour guide was Tran Quynh Hoa, a Vietnamese journalist who took a keen interest in his war stories.
Hoa later wrote an article in a widely read Vietnamese newspaper about Axelrad's quest to return the bones to their owner. Hung said his brother-in-law in Ho Chi Minh City read the article and contacted the newspaper's editors.
Hoa, now a communications officer for the International Labour Organization, arranged Monday's reunion in An Khe, near the coastal city of Qui Nhon, and served as an interpreter for the veterans.
"It's just time for closure," Axelrad said a day before the meeting.
Hung was surprised to be reunited with his lost limb, to say the least.
"I can't believe that an American doctor took my infected arm, got rid of the flesh, dried it, took it home and kept it for more than 40 years," he said by telephone last week from his home. "I don't think it's the kind of keepsake that most people would want to own. But I look forward to seeing him again and getting my arm bones back."
Hung served Axelrad and his family lunch, shared memories and reflected on all the time that had passed. Axelrad said he was pleased to learn where and how Hung had been living for so many years, and to meet his children and grandchildren.
"I'm so happy that he was able to make a life for himself," Axelrad said.
http://hosted2.ap.org/ARLID/Oddities/Article_2013-07-01-Vietnam-Missing%20Arm/id-dcab97d7bc8c4c939a5a29a6552974c7
MIKE IVES, Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An American doctor arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966.
Dr. Sam Axelrad brought the skeletal keepsake home to Texas as a reminder that when a badly injured North Vietnamese soldier was brought to him, he did the right thing and fixed him up. The bones sat in a closet for decades, and when the Houston urologist finally pulled them out two years ago, he wondered about their true owner, Nguyen Quang Hung.
The men were reunited Monday at Hung's home in central Vietnam. They met each other's children, and grandchildren, and joked about which of them had been better looking back when war had made them enemies. Hung was stunned that someone had kept his bones for so long, but happy that when the time comes, they will be buried with him.
"I'm very glad to see him again and have that part of my body back after nearly half a century," Hung said by telephone Monday after meeting Axelrad. "I'm proud to have shed my blood for my country's reunification, and I consider myself very lucky compared with many of my comrades who were killed or remain unaccounted for."
Hung, 73, said American troops shot him in the arm in October 1966 during an ambush about 75 kilometers (46 miles) from An Khe, the town where he now lives. After floating down a stream to escape a firefight and then sheltering in a rice warehouse for three days, he was evacuated by a U.S. helicopter to a no-frills military hospital in Phu Cat, in central Binh Dinh province.
"When I was captured by the American forces, I was like a fish on a chopping-board," Hung said last week. "They could have either killed or spared me."
When Hung got to Axelrad, then a 27-year-old military doctor, his right forearm was the color of an eggplant. To keep the infection from killing his patient, Axelrad amputated the arm above the elbow.
After the surgery, Hung spent eight months recovering and another six assisting American military doctors, Hung said. He spent the rest of the war offering private medical services in the town, and later served in local government for a decade before retiring on his rice farm.
"He probably thought we were going to put him in some prisoner-of-war camp," Axelrad said. "Surely he was totally surprised when we just took care of him."
As for the arm, Axelrad said his medic colleagues boiled off the flesh, reconstructed the arm bones and gave them to him. It was hardly common practice, but he said it was a reminder of a good deed performed.
The bones sat in a military bag in Axelrad's closet for decades, along with other things from the war that he didn't want look at because he didn't want to relive those experiences.
When he finally went through the mementos in 2011, "it just blew me away what was in there," Axelrad said at a hotel bar in Hanoi early Sunday, hours after arriving in Vietnam with his two sons and two grandchildren on Saturday evening. "That kind of triggered my thoughts of returning."
It had taken a little luck for Axelrad to reunite Hung with his amputated arm. He traveled to Vietnam last summer — partly for vacation, but also to try to find the man.
He said he wasn't sure Hung was still alive, or where to begin looking for him. Axelrad visited An Khe but didn't ask for him there because he assumed Hung would be living in northern Vietnam, where he grew up.
By chance, Axelrad toured the old Vietnam War bunker at the Metropole Hotel in downtown Hanoi. His tour guide was Tran Quynh Hoa, a Vietnamese journalist who took a keen interest in his war stories.
Hoa later wrote an article in a widely read Vietnamese newspaper about Axelrad's quest to return the bones to their owner. Hung said his brother-in-law in Ho Chi Minh City read the article and contacted the newspaper's editors.
Hoa, now a communications officer for the International Labour Organization, arranged Monday's reunion in An Khe, near the coastal city of Qui Nhon, and served as an interpreter for the veterans.
"It's just time for closure," Axelrad said a day before the meeting.
Hung was surprised to be reunited with his lost limb, to say the least.
"I can't believe that an American doctor took my infected arm, got rid of the flesh, dried it, took it home and kept it for more than 40 years," he said by telephone last week from his home. "I don't think it's the kind of keepsake that most people would want to own. But I look forward to seeing him again and getting my arm bones back."
Hung served Axelrad and his family lunch, shared memories and reflected on all the time that had passed. Axelrad said he was pleased to learn where and how Hung had been living for so many years, and to meet his children and grandchildren.
"I'm so happy that he was able to make a life for himself," Axelrad said.
http://hosted2.ap.org/ARLID/Oddities/Article_2013-07-01-Vietnam-Missing%20Arm/id-dcab97d7bc8c4c939a5a29a6552974c7
Why professional athletes aren't held accountable
“Howard, 27, is being referred to as a malcontent, a troublemaker and selfish by some in the media, but he’s still a great player.”
(Well, that’s all that matters, isn’t it. Even in team sports, a selfish, trouble-making malcontent is OK as long as he is a “great player.”)
‘Lakers knew deal when they signed Howard’
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/jul/03/lakers-knew-deal-when-they-signed-howard-20130703/?f=sports
(Well, that’s all that matters, isn’t it. Even in team sports, a selfish, trouble-making malcontent is OK as long as he is a “great player.”)
‘Lakers knew deal when they signed Howard’
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/jul/03/lakers-knew-deal-when-they-signed-howard-20130703/?f=sports
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
While Paula Deen is attacked for something she said almost 30 years ago
Mayor Bloomberg gets by with: "I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little."
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/06/hobbes-bloomberg-has-been-great-mayor.html
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/06/hobbes-bloomberg-has-been-great-mayor.html
American denied entry into England because of Israeli stamps on passport
Louis “Chip” Cantor detained for nine hours at airport.
“A Jewish student from Kansas was denied entry into Britain for a summer job several weeks ago – apparently due to a customs agent’s anti-Semitism.
“After being detained for more than nine hours, he was put back on a plane to the United States by customs officials. During that time he was never told why he was being denied entry.” – ‘Keeping a “Little Jew” out of Britain’
http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/07/keeping-a-little-jew-out-of-britain/#more-29370
“’At some point a woman who was wearing a burka came to the cell to photograph him,’ Chuck said. At that point he was fingerprinted as well.
“As she was doing this, she said to him, ‘We’re putting your name and fingerprints and photos into a database. From now on it is going to be very difficult for you to ever travel in the United Kingdom or anywhere in the E.U. It will be up to each individual country to decide if they want to admit you.’”
“A Jewish student from Kansas was denied entry into Britain for a summer job several weeks ago – apparently due to a customs agent’s anti-Semitism.
“After being detained for more than nine hours, he was put back on a plane to the United States by customs officials. During that time he was never told why he was being denied entry.” – ‘Keeping a “Little Jew” out of Britain’
http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/07/keeping-a-little-jew-out-of-britain/#more-29370
“’At some point a woman who was wearing a burka came to the cell to photograph him,’ Chuck said. At that point he was fingerprinted as well.
“As she was doing this, she said to him, ‘We’re putting your name and fingerprints and photos into a database. From now on it is going to be very difficult for you to ever travel in the United Kingdom or anywhere in the E.U. It will be up to each individual country to decide if they want to admit you.’”
UN official doesn’t have a good grasp on reality
“The U.N. deputy chief, Jan Eliasson, who was in Kabul wrapping up a five-day trip to Afghanistan when the attack took place, said continued violence could only harm the Taliban's own cause.
"’I would hope that there would be steps taken by the leadership of the Taliban to realize that the tool of violence in any case cannot instill confidence in the population,’ he said. "There's been too much suffering there and there are too many widows, too many father-and-motherless children in Afghanistan and I think we need to instill a sense of calm.’"
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/jul/02/taliban-hit-nato-supply-compound-kabul-kill-7/?latest
(The Taliban are the “outs” in Afghan rule. At one time they were the “ins,” but they were displaced by lots and lots of rifles and machine guns and US air power. “Continued violence” does not harm their cause.)
"’I would hope that there would be steps taken by the leadership of the Taliban to realize that the tool of violence in any case cannot instill confidence in the population,’ he said. "There's been too much suffering there and there are too many widows, too many father-and-motherless children in Afghanistan and I think we need to instill a sense of calm.’"
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/jul/02/taliban-hit-nato-supply-compound-kabul-kill-7/?latest
(The Taliban are the “outs” in Afghan rule. At one time they were the “ins,” but they were displaced by lots and lots of rifles and machine guns and US air power. “Continued violence” does not harm their cause.)
Archaeologists used to dig up stuff and people and say, ‘This happened.’
Now, archaeological groups ask for papers that will “question the natural and cultural boundaries of a body (and) also examine how gender may cross the biological/cultural divide to form the situated experience of personhood. How does bodily mobility across boundaries affect gendered experience? How do we recognize such a processes in the archaeological record?”
http://www.e-a-a.org/tea/sr18_38.pdf
“The goal of the session was to encourage archaeologists who work on gender to focus on boundaries and boundary-crossings, and those who work on boundaries to focus on gender.”
“Drawing on feminist science studies, Tomášková suggested that the Neanderthal body reflects meanings and metaphors that illuminate archaeology’s shifting position as the science of the past, while reflecting social and historical changes of European societies.”
(All I was looking for was information on the Raqefet Cave, and I got much more than necessary. Example: Neanderthal remains reflect a metaphor. Oh.)
http://www.e-a-a.org/tea/sr18_38.pdf
“The goal of the session was to encourage archaeologists who work on gender to focus on boundaries and boundary-crossings, and those who work on boundaries to focus on gender.”
“Drawing on feminist science studies, Tomášková suggested that the Neanderthal body reflects meanings and metaphors that illuminate archaeology’s shifting position as the science of the past, while reflecting social and historical changes of European societies.”
(All I was looking for was information on the Raqefet Cave, and I got much more than necessary. Example: Neanderthal remains reflect a metaphor. Oh.)
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